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Co-Op gaming has been in his blood since the days of Sega Genesis playing Streets of Rage and Golden Axe. Of course the fond memories of the boardwalk arcade and Raiden II, Aliens vs. Predator, and Ninja Turtles didn't hurt either.

Nick's resume includes over 6 years of gaming coverage experience, including leadership roles at many prominent gaming outlets. He has created numerous websites to feed his insatiable appetite for world domination, of which, is coming along nicely.

Dauntless is an online co-op action RPG where up to 4 players work together to hunt down ferocious beasts called Behemoths. It sounds a lot like Monster Hunter, and with talent from Bio-Ware, Riot, Capcom, and Blizzard feeding into new developer Phoenix Labs, there's a lot of potential.

Black Friday seems to become longer and longer every year. I'm pretty sure it started on November 1st for most of the internet, but there are some exclusive deals today on Amazon for gaming goodness you can grab. We've looked through the pages and pages and picked out some of the best co-op focused deals. Clicking the links support Co-Optimus!

It’s fairly fitting that Battlezone VR is a launch title for Sony’s PlayStation VR platform. The original 1980’s arcade game in some ways can be considered one of the first VR games that was released. The cabinets had players looking through a set of goggles at a black and green lined based battlefield filled with tanks. Players w...

Last night four middle aged men tried to relive their teenage years of playing some classic Duke Nukem 3D in co-op. The recent release of Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary Edition World Tourgave us a chance to not only check out the game with some fancy new visual effects, but all new levels designed by some of the game's original creators. We were stoked.

It's been over 5 years since we last asked for our awesome readers to participate in a survey, so we figured, now might be a good time to do it again! Co-Op gaming has changed quite a bit since 2011, and it's time to understand what cooperative gaming looks like as we enter into the varsity years of the latest gen of consoles.

Well crap. October totally snuck up on us and we missed our normal September round-up. Better late than never, right? Those pesky news stories, game releases, and features simply got away from us. It was a jam packed month with almost a dozen co-op game reviews!

This is going to be short and simple. Are you looking to see which Xbox 360 games will work on the Xbox One for some glorious couch or online co-op action? Are you rooting through your bins of old games saying - gosh darn it - which ones of these can I play with little Sally on our shiny new Xbox One? Then we've got the tool just for you.

Terrorists suck. Let's just get that out of the way. So when a game has a dedicated mode called "Terrorist Hunt" - Co-Optimus listens. In our latest stream we check out Rainbow Six Siege, a game that has recently seen a resurgence thanks to a $15 PC version that HEAVILY utilizes many free to play mechanics to subsidize it.

Livelock is officially out on Xbox One, PC and PlayStation 4. The three player co-op shooter is a fun and well polished title with some spiffy visuals to boot. Today we've got a really special giveaway courtesy of publisher Perfect World.

Welcome to the "Fall Gaming Season" - officially kicking off the craziest three months of releases of the year. In any given September, October and November - the amount of video game releases usually equal that for the entire rest of the year. So...strap in.

I must admit, I'm sort of surprised to see so many co-op twin-stick shooters lately. It's a good thing, don't get me wrong, it's one of my favorite genres of games - after all I created one myself. It's just surprising because they always seemed sort of niche. Perhaps Monsters and Monocles, launching today on Steam Early Access, is the very embodiment of that. Combining steampunk, horror, and retro goodness into a four player twin-stick game.